Long-Term Effects of the Paraguayan War (1864-1870) on Intimate Partner Violence
This paper investigates the long-term effects of the Paraguayan War (1864–1870) on intimate partner violence (IPV). The identification relies on a novel historical dataset which uses the distance from municipalities to military camps during the war together with military camps’ sizes to proxy the impact of the war across Eastern Paraguay. The likelihood of modern-day IPV is 5.54 percent higher than average in municipalities that were more heavily affected by the war. I present evidence that reducing the gender differences in the labour market and in human capital accumulation after the war increases the long term likelihood of IPV. As non-gender types of interpersonal violence in the long-run are unaffected, I conclude that gender norms caused by the war enabled IPV. I argue that female empowerment is a multifaceted phenomenon where some dimensions, in this case IPV, have a greater influence than others
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2022
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Authors: | Boggiano, Barbara |
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